Category: Beginner Rhythm Guitar Lessons

A collection of content focusing on the rhythm aspects of guitar at a beginner to intermediate skill level. Topics covered include basic chords, chord progression structure and intro-level music theory.

Particularly in western music (pop, rock, the "post-grunge" era) chord progressions are quite simple.

Here's what I mean by simple:

Chord progressions follow or harmonize with bass lines which are often straightforward and easy to decipher. Even in songs that might sound complicated, with tricky rhythms or lengthy melody lines, bass lines … Read More

The E7 chord, or the "Jimi Hendrix chord" as some call it, is a slightly modified triadic E major (or minor - though in our case we're learning the major version). All that really changes is that we add a seventh interval over top of the root note.